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Grace Medical and Wellbeing Clinic

Our Grace Medical and Wellbeing Clinic, of which membership to Grace Belgravia is not obligatory, is led by Dr Tim Evans and is open to both men and women over the age of 21. We are dedicated to improving and prolonging your health and wellbeing in the widest sense as preventive medicine and ageing well is our ethos.

Medical Membership

Available to men and women, Grace Medical Membership offers incomparable support for those recuperating from illness, facing surgery, or who need support with health concerns, ensuring a quick return to optimum health.

The Grace Gym

Class Timetable

The Grace gym timetable is filled with a motivational mix of high intensity classes, toning barre, dance, reformer sessions and yoga to improve fitness, strengthen and lengthen. With over 100 classes a week from dawn till dusk, there’s an energising, challenging workout to suit all ages and abilities.

Fitness Programmes

With our busy lifestyles it can be challenging to prioritise eating well, exercise and wellbeing, so at Grace we have created a range of integrated packages, encompassing fitness, nutrition, body treatments and medical support to deliver truly transformative results.

Menus at Grace

Grace To Go

Grace to Go makes it easier than ever to enjoy delicious healthy food wherever you are. Choose from a tempting range of nourishing dishes, snacks and smoothies to collect at the Club, or have delivered to your home, office – or elsewhere!

External Catering

Whatever you’re catering for – be it an intimate meal, a cocktail party or a boardroom of colleagues craving healthy alternatives, Your Grace can provide a tempting array of deliciously healthy options for any occasion.

Body Treatments

Facial Treatments

We work with some of the most advanced skincare technology to effectively treat a range of skin concerns, from reducing signs of ageing to rehydrating and firming skin for a healthy, glowing complexion.

WHAT’S THE BEST TIME OF DAY TO EXERCISE?

June 8th, 2015|
Fitness, Lifestyle

Chronobiology has proven that our bodies are far more likely to perform better at certain times of day – and here, the Grace Belgravia experts show us how the workout you’re doing and results you hope to achieve, can be taken to the next level with a bit of clock-watching

Just as with other activities of life – eating, sleeping, socialising, travelling – timing is crucial. Exercising at the optimal time of day not only means you get more out of the physical exercise itself but that also you maximise the myriad knock-on benefits. Your sleep, level of nourishment, alertness, strength, cognitive awareness and mood… all things affected by exercise, and in turn, the time of day we choose to do so.

If you’re going for sports records you will know how timing affects performance. One study showed that the average time for a 100-metre sprint was 2.7 seconds faster at 10pm than at 6.30am. Most Olympic records are broken in the late afternoon.

You may not be chasing world records or challenging yourself to beat your own “personal best” ­– but we’re all seeking that sense of wellbeing and happiness that comes from exercising well. For this reason, here are some exercise tips to get the best out of your body clocks:

Studies have shown that between 3pm and 6pm, physical performance peaks

Muscle strength is at its highest between 2pm and 6pm.Lung function is an astonishing 17% more efficient at 5pm than at midday. Good to know if you’re heading out for a particularly strenuous workout.

If your exercise involves risk of physical injury, the later in the afternoon the better: joints and muscles are as much as 20% more flexible in the early evening, and our receptiveness to pain is lower too – so we are more likely to feel our body’s strain, adjust, and thus avoid injury.

Similarly, if your activity demands good hand-eye co-ordination, late afternoon is the best time.

If you’re concerned about your blood pressure, afternoon or evening exercise can reduce it by 10%-11%

For additional psychological benefits, a morning workout will release endorphins which will make you start the day feeling positive and happy

And finally, to get a good night’s sleep, scheduling your exercise for the afternoon helps deepen sleep and cut the time it takes to fall asleep. But note: vigorous exercise just before bedtime can have the reverse effect.

While the opportunity we get to work out may be the same each day, it is worth considering how you can tailor the results of your fitness regime, simply by tailoring the time of day the exercise is taken. But, most importantly of all, our experts agree that any workout is better than no workout at all!